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FILE PHOTO: Members of the Iranian revolutionary guard march during a parade in Tehran, Iran, September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo Albania Foils IRGC Terrorist Plot Albanian police said on Wednesday they have discovered an Iranian paramilitary network that planned attacks in Albania against exiled members of an Iranian group seeking to overthrow the government in Tehran. The Associated Press quoted police chief Ardi Veliu as saying that the foreign wing of Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), the Quds force, operated an "active terrorist cell" targeting Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK, group members in Albania. A police statement said two Iranian top security officials led the cell from Tehran. It also said the network was linked with organized crime groups in Turkey and used a former MEK member to collect information in Albania. Veliu said another planned attack on the group in Albania by Iranian government agents was foiled in March during the Sultan Nevruz...

Albanian police reveal details of Iranian regime's terror plot against MEK-October 23, 2019 New details on Iran’s terror attempt against MEK members in Albania Iran, October 24, 2019 — Albanian authorities have revealed new information about a Tehran-affiliated terrorist group that has been plotting against members of Iranian opposition  People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) . In March 2018, news broke that  Albanian authorities had foiled a terrorist plot by the Iranian regime against MEK  members in Tirana, who were gathering for the annual Nowruz celebrations.  In the past years, Albania has given refuge to thousands of MEK members previously in Iraq, where they were constantly targeted by the Iranian regime and its allies in the Iraqi government. Since the relocation of MEK members to Albania, Tehran has increased its presence in the country and is using its diplomatic premises to con...

NEW TAKEDOWNS DEMONSTRATE THE PERSISTENCE OF IRAN’S ONLINE DISINFORMATION 23 October 2019 -  Facebook has been engaged in an ongoing battle with online disinformation ever since it was revealed that the social media platform had been used by foreign entities to undermine the integrity of the American electoral process during the 2016 presidential campaigns. Since first making a commitment to combat false and misleading accounts, Facebook has conducted a series of sweeps resulting in thousands of accounts and pages being shut down. The same is true of other social media giants including Twitter and the Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram. As reports have emerged about these closures, more details have come to light about the origins of the relevant pages, as well as their methods and the trends involving hacking collectives and government agencies that run them. Although initial concerns about fraudulent social media use were focused on Russian state actors...

International Condemnation of Iranian Regime Terrorism and Warmongering Interventions Written by  Mansoureh Galestan  on  23 October 2019 . BRIAN  H OOK: THE UNITED STATES  CAL L S  ON UN TO RENEW  ARMS EMBARGO   ON  IRAN   Brian  H ook, the  U nited  S tates  Special Representative for Iran ,  said in a message that “ We call on the U.N. Security Council to renew the arms embargo on Iran and to renew the travel ban on  Qasem Soleimani  and 22 other terrorists. It is time for the world to restore deterrence and to do everything possible to promote a more peaceful and stable the Middle East. ”   “Something else will also happen on October 18 th  of next year: the travel ban on 23 Iranian terrorists wi l l expire.  This includes the notorious terrorist, Qasem Soleimani ,” added Hook.    “The Iranian regime has a 40-years history of conducting terrorist attacks acro...